Ethnohistory Of Chippewa Of Lake Superior

This is an anthropological report on the aboriginal use and occupancy of land known as Royce Area 242. This document, compiled primarily from early historical accounts, covers the period from 1658-1838.

THIS study was stimulated by research on Indian land claims. The emphasis in the research was on the occupancy by Indian communities of lands ceded as bounded tracts to the United States; it involved using historical source material to trace the occupancy by specific peoples of a number of circumscribed areas in the old Northwest Territory from the beginning of the historical period to the time of treaty making. Among the Chippewa of the upper Great Lakes and Mississippi headwaters the period comprehends the years between 1640 and the middle of the 19th century... ... Four main divisions of Chippewa [he Bungee (or Plains Ojibwa), the northern Chippewa (or Saulteaux), the southeastern Chippewa and the southwestern Chippewa] had emerged by the onset of the 19th century. These divisions together occupied a vast territory including almost the entire region between the lower peninsula of Michigan, adjacent parts of Ontario, and the plains of eastern Saskatchewan. This territory in the United States included lands adjacent to the northern parts of the upper Great Lakes and the entire region of the headwaters of the Mississippi (see Map 1). In Canada, Chippewa occupied the entire Lake Superior drainage, the northern Lake Huron drainage, and even portions of the upper Ottawa River. Almost the entire Lake Winnipeg region was occupied by Chippewa, and also other parts of the Hudson's Bay drainage including the upper Hays River. This territory, great in extent and diversity, had been occupied as a result of a series of migrations and conquests beginning in the ninth decade of the 17th century, originating in a rather small area adjacent to northern Lake Huron and eastern Lake Superior of which the great fishery at Sault Ste. Marie was the center. The most far ranging of these divisions was the Bungee, or Plains Ojibwa, who adopted a bison hunting economy and resembled other northern Plains tribes in important facets of their political and ceremonial organ... -- Amazon.

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The extent of Kohl's observations is really amazing. They cover the fur trade, canoe building, domestic utensils, quillwork, native foods, hunting, fishing, trapping, cooking, toboggans, snowshoes, gardening, lodge building, games and warfare.--Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly

The first comprehensive history of Native American tribes in Wisconsin, this thorough and thoroughly readable account follows Wisconsin’s Indian communities—Ojibwa, Potawatomie, Menominee, Winnebago, Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Ottawa—from the 1600s through 1960. Written for students and general readers, it covers in detail the ways that native communities have striven to shape and maintain their traditions in the face of enormous external pressures. The author, Robert E. Bieder, begins by describing the Wisconsin region in the 1600s—both the natural environment, with its profound significance for Native American peoples, and the territories of the many tribal cultures throughout the region—and then surveys experiences with French, British, and, finally, American contact. Using native legends and historical and ethnological sources, Bieder describes how the Wisconsin communities adapted first to the influx of Indian groups fleeing the expanding Iroquois Confederacy in eastern America and then to the arrival of fur traders, lumber men, and farmers. Economic shifts and general social forces, he shows, brought about massive adjustments in diet, settlement patterns, politics, and religion, leading to a redefinition of native tradition. Historical photographs and maps illustrate the text, and an extensive bibliography has many suggestions for further reading.